Re: Backporting fix for #199981 to 4.19.y?

Laurențiu Păncescu
2021-06-04T14:50:38Z

Hi Greg,

On 6/3/21 11:19 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> That commit does not apply cleanly and I need a backported version. Can
> you do that and test it to verify it works and then send it to us to be
> applied?

I now have a patch against linux-4.19.y, tested on my EeePC just now:
the battery status and discharge rate are shown correctly.

I've never submitted a patch before, should I put "commit <short-hash>
upstream." as the first line of my commit message, followed by another
line stating which branch I would like this to be merged to? Should I
also include the original commit message of the backported commit? And
then use git format-patch? I just read through [1] and [2], but they
don't say anything specific about commit messages for backported patches.

Thanks,
Laurențiu

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html